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'''Celebreality''' is a [[portmanteau]] that combines the words [[celebrity]] and [[reality]], and is generally used to refer to programming in which celebrities star and participate in [[reality television]] shows.

The first known published use of the word was by Michael Gross, writing for the ''[[Toronto Star]]'' on [[May 12]] [[1991]], who used it in reference to celebrities looking like everyday people at the [[63rd Academy Awards]]. The next known published use of the word was by Joyce Millman, writing for the ''[[New York Times]]'' on January 5, 2003,<ref>[http://www.wordspy.com/words/celebreality.asp WordSpy.com]</ref> who used the word in its commonly accepted form. Since then, the word has gained currency.

On November 19, 2004, [[Viacom]] applied for trademark registration of the word [http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=78520234].  Since December 5, 2004, Viacom subsidiary [[VH1]] has used the word "Celebreality" as the title of its block of reality shows featuring [[A-list|B and C-list]] celebrities,<ref>[[http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/101732/episode.jhtml VH1]</ref> but the term is also commonly used by writers about pop culture to describe this type of program (examples: ''[[Dancing with the Stars]]'', ''[[Skating with Celebrities]]'', ''[[The Osbournes]]'').

==Season One==
The first season of Celebreality premiered on January 9, 2005. Anchored by the fourth season of ''[[The Surreal Life]]'', which VH1 picked up from [[The WB]], the block of reality TV also debuted the inaugural season of ''[[Celebrity Fit Club (US TV series)|Celebrity Fit Club]]'' and a ''Surreal Life'' spin-off from the previous season: ''[[Strange Love]]'' which followed the relationship between [[Flavor Flav]] and [[Brigitte Nielsen]].

==Season Two==
Celebreality made a comeback on July 10, 2005. Once again, ''The Surreal Life'' was the main attraction. ''Celebrity Fit Club'' returned for its second season, and ''[[Hogan Knows Best]]'', a reality show documenting the life of wrestler Hulk Hogan and his family, premiered.

===(Part Two)===
The second season of Celebreality featured more than twice as many shows as the first. Since both ''Hogan Knows Best'' and ''Celebrity Fit Club'' were both five episode shows, and ''The Surreal Life'' featured ten, two new shows picked up for the two concluding shows as the second half of ''The Surreal Life'' continued. The new shows were ''[[Breaking Bonaduce]]'', chronicling the life of former ''[[Partridge Family]]'' star [[Danny Bonaduce]], and ''[[My Fair Brady]]'', another ''Surreal Life'' spin-off, which followed the relationship between [[Christopher Knight]] and [[Adrianne Curry]]. Both shows premiered September 11, 2005.

===(Part Three)===
The third part of the second series of Celebreality continued the series of ''My Fair Brady'' and ''Breaking Bonaduce'' (both ten episode shows), but also introduced a replacement for the concluded ''The Surreal Life''. This was ''[[But Can They Sing?]]'' a five episode singing competition featuring stars who are famous for things other than singing (boxing, acting, modeling).

==Season Three==
The third separate series of Celebreality began airing on January 1, 2006. Unlike all previous installations, it did not debut a new season of ''The Surreal Life''. However, ''Celebrity Fit Club'' did return for season three, and ''[[Flavor of Love]]'', a dating competition starring [[Flavor Flav]] premiered.

===(Part Two)===
Once ''Celebrity Fit Club'' and ''Flavor of Love'' had concluded their ten episode runs, two returning favorites took their place. These included another new season (the sixth) of ''The Surreal Life'' and season two of ''Hogan Knows Best'' (both premiering March 19, 2006). The second season of ''My Fair Brady'' premiered May 28, 2006. ''Flavor of Love'' returned April 2, 2006, for its reunion show.

==Season Four==
The fourth season of Celebreality began August 6, 2006, with season two of ''Flavor of Love'' and season four of ''Celebrity Fit Club''. ''Breaking Bonaduce'' and ''Hogan Knows Best'' resumed in October 2006. The Halloween special ''[[Celebrity Paranormal Project]]'' also aired that month.

==Season Five==
Season 5 of Celebreality premiered on January 7, 2007 with the premieres of [[Surreal Life|Surreal Life Fame Games]] and Shooting Sizemore starring [[Tom Sizemore]]. [[I Love New York (TV series)]] a spin-off with New York from Flavor of Love, aired on January 8, 2007.Hogan Knows Best continues the second half of its third season on January 7, 2007.Also a new show called [[The White Rapper Show]].

=== (Part Two) ===
While the [[The Surreal Life: Fame Games]] and [[I Love New York (TV series)|I Love New York]] continue on [[March 5]], [[2007]] [[Dice Undisputed]] will premiere

===(Part Three)===
[[Celebrity Fit Club (US TV series)|Celebrity Fit Club]] returns on April 22. A new show [[Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School]] will premiere on April 15th [[The Springer Hustle]].


===(Part Four)===
[[Rock of Love with Bret Michaels]] and [[Scott Baio Is 45...and Single]] will premiere on July 15.

==Celebreality Stars==
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{| class="wikitable"
!Person!!Claim to fame!!Show
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|[[Adrianne Curry]]||[[America's Next Top Model]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season Four), [[My Fair Brady]]
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|[[Da Brat]]||Female Solo Rap Artist||[[Surreal Life]] (Season Four), [[Celebrity Fit Club (US TV series)|Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 5)
|-
|[[Christopher Knight]]||[[The Brady Bunch]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season Four), [[My Fair Brady]]
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|[[Joanie Laurer]]||[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Wrestler||[[Surreal Life]] (Season Four), [[The Surreal Life: Fame Games]]
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|[[Marcus Schenkenberg]]||Male Supermodel||[[Surreal Life]] (Season Four)
|-
|[[Verne Troyer]]||[[Austin Powers]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season Four), [[The Surreal Life: Fame Games]]
|-
|[[Jane Wiedlin]]||[[The Go-Go's]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season Four)
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|[[Daniel Baldwin]]||[[Actor]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]]
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|[[Kim Coles]]||[[Living Single]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]]
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|[[Mablean Ephriam|Judge Mablean Ephriam]]||[[Divorce Court]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]]
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|[[Joe Gannascoli]]||[[The Sopranos]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]]
|-
|[[Wendy Kaufman]]||[[Snapple]] Spokeswoman||[[Celebrity Fit Club]], [[Celebrity Fit Club]](Season 2)
|-
|[[Biz Markie]]||[[Rapper]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]]
|-
|[[Ralphie May]]||[[Last Comic Standing]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]]
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|[[Mia Tyler]]||[[Actress]], Daughter of [[Steven Tyler]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]]
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|[[Flavor Flav]]||[[Public Enemy]]||[[Strange Love]],[[Surreal Life]](Season 3) [[Flavor of Love]]
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|[[Brigitte Nielsen]]||[[Actress]]||[[Strange Love]], [[Surreal Life]](Season 3), [[Flavor of Love]] (Cameo), [[The Surreal Life: Fame Games]]
|-
|[[Willie Aames]]||[[Charles in Charge]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 2)
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|[[Gary Busey]]||Actor||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 2)[[Celebrity Paranormal Project]]   
|-
|[[Jackée Harry]]||[[227]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]]
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|[[Victoria Jackson]]||[[Saturday Night Live]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 2)
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|[[Toccara Jones]]||[[America's Next Top Model]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 2)[[Celebrity Paranormal Project]] 
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|[[Jani Lane]]||Lead Singer of [[Warrant]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 2)
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|[[Phil Margera]]||Father of [[Bam Margera]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 2)
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|[[Hulk Hogan]]||[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Wrestler||[[Hogan Knows Best]]
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|[[Danny Bonaduce]]||[[The Partridge Family]]||[[Breaking Bonaduce]]
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|[[Florence Henderson]]||[[The Brady Bunch]]||[[My Fair Brady]], [[Surreal Life]] (Season Six)
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|-[[Kim Alexis]]||Supermodel||[[But Can They Sing?]]
|-
|[[Carmine Gotti Agnello]]||[[Growing Up Gotti]]||[[But Can They Sing?]]
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|[[Michael Copon]]||[[Power Rangers: Time Force]]||[[But Can They Sing?]]
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|[[Myrka Dellanos]]||Journalist||[[But Can They Sing?]]
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|[[Morgan Fairchild]]||Actress||[[But Can They Sing?]]
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|[[Larry Holmes]]||Former heavyweight boxing champion||[[But Can They Sing?]]
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|[[Bai Ling]]||Actress||[[But Can They Sing?]]
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|[[Joe Pantoliano]]||Actor||[[But Can They Sing?]]
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|[[Antonio Sabato Jr.]]||Actor||[[But Can They Sing?]]
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|[[Bizarre]]||[[D12]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 3)
|-
|[[Tempestt Bledsoe]]||[[The Cosby Show]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 3)
|-
|[[Chastity Bono]]||Daughter of [[Cher]] & [[Sonny Bono]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 3)
|-
|[[Jeff Conaway]]||[[Grease (film)|Grease]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 3)
|-
|[[Kelly LeBrock]]||[[Weird Science]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 3)
|-
|[[Gunnar Nelson]]||[[Nelson (band)]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 3)
|-
|[[Countess Vaughn]]||[[The Parkers]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 3)
|-
|[[Bruce Vilanch]]||Writer||[[Celebrity Fit Club]] (Season 3)
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|[[Caprice Bourret]]||[[Model (person)|Model]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 5)
|-
|[[José Canseco]]||[[Baseball Player]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 5)
|-
|[[Sandy Denton]]||[[Salt-N-Pepa]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 5), [[The Surreal Life: Fame Games]]
|-
|[[Janice Dickinson]]||[[Supermodel]] (World's First)||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 5)
|-
|[[Carey Hart]]||[[Motocross]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 5)
|-
|[[Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth]]||[[The Apprentice]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 5)
|-
|[[Bronson Pinchot]]||[[Perfect Strangers (TV series)|Perfect Strangers]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 5)
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|[[Alexis Arquette]]||Actress||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 6)
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|[[C.C. DeVille]]||Lead Guitarist for [[Poison]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 6), [[The Surreal Life: Fame Games]]
|-
|[[Steven Harwell|Steve Harwell]]||Lead Singer for [[Smash Mouth]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 6)
|-
|[[Sherman Helmsley]]||[[The Jeffersons]]||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 6)
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|[[Maven Huffman]]||Former [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Wrestler||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 6)
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|[[Tawny Kitaen]]||Actress||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 6)
|- 
|[[Andrea Lowell]]||[[Playboy]] Model||[[Surreal Life]] (Season 6), [[The Surreal Life: Fame Games]]
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|[[Vanilla Ice]]||[[Rapper]]||[[Surreal Life]](Season 2),[[The Surreal Life: Fame Games]]  
|-  
|[[Traci Bingham]]||[[Baywatch]]||[[Surreal Life]](Season 2),[[The Surreal Life: Fame Games]] [[Celebrity Paranormal Project]]   
|- 
|[[Bone Crusher]]||[[Rapper]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]](Season 4)
|-
|[[Erika Eleniak]]||[[Baywatch]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]](Season 4)
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|[[Ted Lange]]||[[The Love Boat]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]](Season 4)
|-
|[[Vincent Pastore]]||[[The Sopranos]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]](Season 4)
|-
|[[Angie Stone]]||[[Singer]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]](Season 4)
|-
|[[Nicholas Turturro|Nick Turturro]]||[[NYPD Blue]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]](Season 4)
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|[[Carnie Wilson]]||[[Singer]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]](Season 4)
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|[[Tina Yothers]]||[[Family Ties]]||[[Celebrity Fit Club]](Season 4)
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|[[Mo'Nique ]]||[[comedian]]||[[Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School]]
|}

==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}


[[Category:VH1 television series]]